Yep. I was very surprised to find no scheme that compiled to native
code and had gtk bindings. Work is being done on the chicken-qt
bindings, at the least, but for the time being I've fallen back on
vala.
martin
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Stephen De Gabrielle
<stephen.degabrielle at acm.org> wrote:
> It worked ok, but I never used it to make apps.
> Ive not tried, but I suspect the real work is making a racket
> library/interface for the ui stuff.
>> S
>> On Saturday, September 18, 2010, Martin DeMello <martindemello at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How well did it work? I've been playing with Chicken to write Maemo
>> code, which seems to work pretty well, but I figured Racket would be
>> pretty heavy for a mobile device.
>>>> martin
>>>> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Stephen De Gabrielle
>> <stephen.degabrielle at acm.org> wrote:
>>> FWIW
>>> I once used scratchbox to cross compile mzscheme to arm
>>>>>> -wikipedia, from Maemo page ->
>>> The Maemo SDK is based around the Debian-oriented Scratchbox Cross
>>> Compilation Toolkit, which provides a sandbox environment in which
>>> development may take place. Scratchbox uses Qemu to emulate an ARM
>>> processor or sbrsh to remotely execute instructions.
>>> Scratchbox-compatible rootstraps are available for both x86 and ARM,
>>> so the majority of development and debugging takes place on x86, with
>>> final packaging being for ARM
>>> --
>>>>>> On Thursday, September 16, 2010, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>>>> On Sep 15, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
>>>>> Regarding Racket building for ARM, when you need to build it often
>>>>> but ARM is relatively slow... I wonder how much work to get
>>>>> cross-compile of the Racket toolset working.
>>>>>>>> Even if the C core part is cross compiled (there's more stuff in the
>>>> collections), the main point is compiling and running the files on the
>>>> machine, so cross compilation (if possible) will certainly speed
>>>> things up, but will not make it a less-effective testing tool.
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